Qik today announced, via its blog, that it is making Qik Premium available for select Nokia devices through the Ovi Store. Qik allows you to stream video live from your smartphone to the web. Advantages of the premium version include improved processing on uploaded videos (higher quality play back and improved speed on low bandwidth connections), unlimited storage space and the ability to download videos (that you have uploaded to Qik) to your PC.
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Wow, you can really see the difference. Good work Qik.
Looking forward to having a play sometime soon.
Maybe I'm just dense and it isn't obvious to me, but why would I want to pay the premium and download videos to my PC, that I've already uploaded, when I can just drag and drop those same videos from the phone/SD card to my PC?
Also, does anybody here use Qik? I'm not seeing the obvious benefits apart from not using local mass memory storage.
Not knocking Qik, more power to them, but it seems like a solution looking for a problem rather than the other way around.
I've loved Qik on the various Nokia S60 v3 devices I've owned over the years, but sad that it doesn't work on my S60 v5 Sony Ericsson Satio yet. Something to do with the way the software handles the camera.
Hopefully fixed soon!
Jimmy1 - I think the appeal of Qik is in its immediacy and ease of use. Its very easy to get video streaming on to the web (compare this to the manual approach). For those that live in social media or who like to post their lives online then it is a must have application.
I love Qik. I have used it since it was still in closed beta state. Those who have not used Quj sghould understand that Qik allows you to stream live video to internet. So Qik is much more that just tool which uploads video to imtermet. You can eg. go to some party and then stream live video from there. That's really great, I have used Qi a lot.
until they support my main phone (Satio)
.. Qik is ok but not great .. Maybe I missed it .. but does this "premium" version allow you to upload a video later?